Anthony Scaramucci

Anthony "the Mooch" Scaramucci (6 January 1964-) was the White House Director of Communications from 21 to 31 July 2017, succeeding Mike Dubke and preceding Hope Hicks.

Biography
Anthony Scaramucci was born in Port Washington, Long Island, New York in 1964, and he had a middle-class upbringing. In 1989, he began working for Goldman Sachs in its investment banking section, and he left Goldman in 1996 to  launch Oscar Capital Management with a colleague; Scaramucci himself founded the SkyBridge Capital investment firm in 2005. In 2008, he supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's presidential campaigns and supported same-sex marriage rights, but he opposed Obama's anti-Wall Street and gun control policies. In 2012, he served as national finance co-chair for Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, and, in 2015, he criticized Donald Trump for his crazy rhetoric, his anti-American and divisive behavior, and for his anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim policies. Ahead of the 2016 presidential election, he hoped that Clinton would be elected president, but he joined the Trump Finance Committee after Scott Walker and Jeb Bush lost in the Republican parimaries. On 12 January 2017, he became director of the White House Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs under Trump. On 6 March 2017, he was replaced by George Sifakis, and he returned to private business before being appointed White House Communications Director on 25 July. He was to report directly to the President instead of to the White House Chief of Staff as Press Secretary Sean Spicer had, and Spicer resigned on the same day as Scaramucci's appointment. On 31 July, however, new White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly had Scaramucci fired because of his lack of discipline and credibility, especially after he accused Reince Priebus of being a "leaker".